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Cutting public sector jobs to reduce spending is not the answer to the Government's fiscal challenges, Premier Paula Cox told a business audience this morning.
Speaking to members of the Chamber of Commerce at a post-Budget breakfast at the Fairmont ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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Transport Minister Terry Lister will look into a private contract the director of TCD claimed Government could do for a million dollars less.
As previously reported TCD director Randy Rochester estimated Government could run the emissions testing fa...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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A 25-year-old Sandys man has been jailed for two years on combined charges of trespass, forgery and perverting the course of justice. Germiko Michaels Williams, of Tribe Road Six, admitted to a spending spree with a credit card belonging to Elizabeth...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Trash will be collected five days a week in an effort to reduce overtime pay.
Public Works Minister Derrick Burgess announced the move one of many cost-cutting measures revealed in Premier Paula Cox’s 201½012 Budget.
Mr Burgess said changing from a f...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Former Premier David Saul has stepped down from the Buy Back Bermuda committee but the Bermuda National Trust (BNT) yesterday begged him to reconsider.
Dr Saul has been involved with the volunteer campaign, which raises funds to purchase land and sav...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Hamilton Mayor Charles Gosling said the City may have to delay or cancel future projects because of Government taking over the collection of Wharfage fees.
While it was announced in the budget that the City of Hamilton would be given a $5 million gra...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Justice Minister Michael Scott pledged to crack down on Legal Aid bills racked up by expensive Queen’s Counsels from overseas.
Meanwhile programmes in the Justice Department will be cut if they are not good value placing a greater onus on the “self-d...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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Budget
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Environment Minister Walter Roban said Government would soon release the White Paper which details how the Island should reduce its dependency on oil.
However, Kathy Michelmore, of the Bermuda Democratic Alliance (BDA), criticised the Government for ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Progressive Labour Party should speed up the process when it comes to reforms, a young member said at Founders’ Day yesterday.
Forty-eight years ago, on February 10, seven men Hugh Richardson, Edward DeJean, Walter Robinson, Wilfred Allen, Albert...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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Politics
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Millions of dollars cut from social and education programmes won't necessarily have a negative impact on their results, charity head Martha Dismont said yesterday.
The executive director of the Family Centre said the challenge to stakeholders now, is...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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